History of the Parish of Cumbel (Historia dalla pleiv da Cumbel) a parish history written in Sursilvan Romansh by the historian and priest Felici Maissen, published in 1983 by Casa editura Desertina at Mustér (Disentis), Switzerland. Spanning sixteen chapters and 264 pages, it chronicles the Catholic parish of Cumbel in the Val Lumnezia from the early medieval period through the 1980s, drawing on parish archives, baptismal and death registers, communal protocols, cantonal records, and oral tradition to document the ecclesiastical, political, demographic, and cultural life of a small Alpine community across six centuries.

The book was published during a period of accelerating change in the Romansh-speaking valleys of Graubünden, as depopulation, municipal consolidation, and the retreat of traditional agrarian life threatened to sever communities from the archival and oral sources that documented their past. Maissen, himself a priest and a prolific historian of the Three Leagues (Drei Bünde), produced the work as both a scholarly record and an act of cultural preservation, writing in the Sursilvan dialect spoken by the people whose history he narrated. The parish of Cumbel — first attested as Cumble around 825 — would merge with seven neighboring communes into the municipality of Lumnezia on 1 January 2013, making Maissen’s book the final comprehensive history of Cumbel as an independent civil and ecclesiastical entity.

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